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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: believing on the testimony of wise men,' is very characteristic of Plato.
TIMAEUS.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Critias, Timaeus, Hermocrates.
SOCRATES: One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of
those who were yesterday my guests and are to be my entertainers to-day?
TIMAEUS: He has been taken ill, Socrates; for he would not willingly have
been absent from this gathering.
SOCRATES: Then, if he is not coming, you and the two others must supply
his place.
TIMAEUS: Certainly, and we will do all that we can; having been handsomely
entertained by you yesterday, those of us who remain should be only too
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